How safe are we feeling? What does that look like on a scale of 0-100 degrees? And what can we then do to manage our feelings, and perhaps reduce the temperature? That's the concept behind this 'Emotional Thermometer' poster. Includes a blank template so that you can fill in your own ideas of what heightened emotions look like uniquely to you, and your own coping strategies for them.

‘We are what we eat,’ the saying goes. But actually, we feel what we eat – as this poster, from our ‘Mental Health and the Body: Treating Trauma’ course helps to show. It shows the surprising link between our gut health and mood, which is more important than ever after trauma.

Triggers are reminders, conscious or unconscious, of traumatic events from the past. They can be overwhelming, debilitating, disabling – but they can also be guides as to what still needs to be processed. In this extended article, I explore the neuroscience of triggers and provides insights into not just what goes on in the brain when we are triggered, but crucially what we can do about it.

Grounding is a helpful technique, but it is just a technique, not an end in itself. Grounding can be helpful, and it can also be unhelpful – when it is offered not in the client's best interests, for the wrong reasons, or inappropriately. This PDF poster provides a comprehensive list of the do's and don'ts of grounding, and how a therapist needs to be in the green zone themselves in order to help a client return there.

Trauma activates our 'back brain' and shuts off large sections of our 'front brain'. Recovery from trauma involves getting our front brain back online consistently. But what are the front and back brains and what are the key differences between them? This poster explains the concept in super-simple terms.

Trauma impacts sleep, and sleep (or lack of it) massively impacts our ability to recover from trauma. In addition, good sleep leads to good health in so many other areas of our life, so it's imperative that we do everything we can to try to improve and maximise our sleep. That's what this poster is about – four key areas where we can work on our sleep, in order to give our brain the kind of dream sleep it particularly needs to process traumatic memories.